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A lift up
At the request of a faculty member in the UMaine School of Nursing, MET students Ben Richardson, Lucas Scher and Patrick Sugar designed and fabricated a lift device to improve the functionality of a bariatric rollator.
MET students design a medical device to enhance mobility
Collaboration is key to the success of any engineering project, according to University of Maine faculty members Brett Ellis and Peter Howorth.
Ellis, an associate professor of mechanical engineering technology, and Howorth, a lecturer in mechanical engineering technology, teach MET 464 and 465, the required capstone courses for majors. Together they have more than four decades of industry experience, including product design and development.
“We teach the students that they must understand the needs of the customer before they begin to design something,” says Howorth. “If you don’t understand the question you can’t expect to get the right answer.”
Ellis notes that communicating with people outside of the discipline of engineering is a critical skill.
“Engineers spend a significant amount of time working with nonengineering professionals,” Ellis says. “We are better engineers when we learn how to communicate clearly.”
With this collaborative approach and a volunteer “client” from UMaine’s School of Nursing, in 2020–21 three MET students designed and built a new medical device, a bariatric rollator lift, for their capstone project. Benjamin Richardson, Lucas Scher and Patrick Sugar partnered with nursing faculty member Susan Tardiff, Ellis and Howorth to develop a lift system that could be operated safely by a patient or caregiver, could lift up to 500 pounds, and could be added to a readily available walker on wheels known as a rollator.
While ultimately enhancing mobility for patients who cannot easily transition from sitting to standing, a viable lift design could also reduce the risk of caregiver back injuries by as much as 50%, according to the students. Scher proposed the rollator lift as the group’s capstone project because he has a family member who could use this type of device.
The group designed a device that is easily added to an “over-thecounter” walker, featuring a protected battery power source to achieve a lift angle of 40 degrees in approximately 15 seconds.
Tardiff, who has previously worked with MET students to approve designs for a pill crushing device, embraced her role as the client in this project, validating design parameters and making suggestions along the way.
“I was the client that hired an engineering firm to develop a
product for me,” Tardiff says. “Then I provided feedback that reflected my expertise as a nurse, since engineers do not generally have expertise in patient safety.”
She says she enjoyed the process and particularly the collaborative relationship, including witnessing how engineers approach a problem, which often varies greatly from that of nursing students. But Tardiff also recognized similarities, such as how students struggle with time management and communications.
“I think that was one of the biggest learning curves for the students — being sure to communicate early and often with other disciplines that are just as busy as they are,” Tardiff says.
Howorth concurs, noting that the team working to develop the bariatric rollator had “real customer conversations,” where the students took on an engineering workplace role to understand their client’s needs.
Previous capstone design successes include development of a soft robot in 2017–18 with chemical and biomedical engineering students and faculty members Caitlin Howell and Karissa Tilbury; the 2017–18 restoration of the pneumatic organ at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor with direction from MET faculty member Keith Berube; and production of a propane-electric hybrid go-kart by MET and electrical engineering technology students in 2016–17, also under Berube’s direction.
Tardiff, Ellis and Howorth all tout the value of interdisciplinary projects and learning.
“Engineers must meet multiple, often competing requirements from a variety of stakeholders,” Ellis says. “Interdisciplinary capstone projects expose MET students to the challenges they will face in industry.
“Although 21st-century challenges — the pandemic, global warming and the desire to improve the quality of life for all people — are great, UMaine MET graduates are learning the skills they need to thrive in a changing world.”
The capstone project focused on creating a system capable of lifting up to 500 pounds. The team’s work involved machining plate clamps and assembling the actuator and plate, and developing the electrical system engaged at the hand control of the device.
One of the top in technology
Melinda Conroy’s talents gain national recognition
Melinda Conroy advocates for herself and doesn’t shy away from demonstrating her talents. Through ambition and networking, along with the skill and knowledge needed to make connections, the University of Maine alumna forged an upward career path from a research assistant to an electrical engineer designing data centers for Ebay. Her ascent and abilities have caught the eyes of many, including a national technology magazine.
Mission Critical Magazine, which features the latest news and resources for data centers and critical facilities, earlier this year named Conroy one of its Top 25 Women in Technology. According to the publication, the inaugural recipients broke through the glass ceiling to earn high-ranking positions at data centers and other critical industries, while also clearing a path “so others can follow their lead.” Publisher Mike
Murphy wrote that these women “have forged a place in this industry and helped to make it an essential resource.” “I was very excited and humbled,” Melinda says. “It’s a very exciting award to receive having only eight years’ experience in the data center industry.” In a Q&A with the publication, Conroy said data centers and other technology industries should introduce more diversity, equity and inclusion efforts to ensure that “work environments, business models and leadership structures” can “work for and reflect everyone.” Increasing diversity by recruiting more women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people from other underrepresentated backgrounds provides an opportunity for growth in the industry, she said. “You may expect someone to notice your hard work, but you need to advocate for yourself,” Conroy says. “Don’t be afraid to know your qualifications and strengths, and present them to those who are in leadership.” At UMaine, Conroy received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2009. After graduation, the South Portland native worked as a power systems engineer for RLC Engineering. She interned there in her senior year. Her father, David, and her uncle, Brian, both currently work for the firm. During her tenure at the company, she conducted system impact studies for power systems in Maine and Canada and consulted operators. In 2013, Vanderweil Engineers in Boston hired Conroy as an electrical
All in the UMaine engineering family: Ryan Boles, Class of ‘24; Kevin Conroy, Class of ’16; Melinda Conroy, Class of ‘09; and Brian Conroy, Class of ‘86. Photos by David Cleaveland
engineer, where she helped design electricity systems for data centers erected in retrofitted buildings and at greenfield and brownfield sites. She then worked for Harley Ellis Devereaux, also in Boston, as an electrical engineer and associate from 2018–20. Now she works for Ebay, the culmination of 12 years of hard work and self-advocacy as an electrical engineer, eight of which she had dedicated to data center design.
UMaine provided opportunities for Conroy to develop some of the skills she needed to excel in the engineering field, she says, including networking, collaboration and professional writing. She credits two sensor research internships with preparing her for her career.
In her sophomore year, Conroy helped researchers and graduate students create and categorize new films for sensors in the Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) in Barrows Hall, now known as the Frontier Research Institute for Sensor Technologies (FIRST). She returned to the lab in her junior year to assist with a study exploring how the shape of surface crystals on sensors affects their operations, particularly by helping create and test patterns of electrodes on various crystal sensor surfaces. The National Science Foundation funded both endeavors.
On both projects, Conroy says she collaborated with her favorite faculty member: George Bernhardt. She says Bernhardt was “an amazing teacher” who was always willing to help students, even outside of class and office hours.
“I was really fortunate to get the two internships,” she says. “I think they really prepared me for being in the workforce.”
Conroy comes from a family of successful engineers. Her uncle, Brian Conroy, graduated from UMaine in 1986 with an electrical engineering degree. He worked at Central Maine Power for 33 years, then joined RLC Engineering, where he is manager for power system studies.
Two of his three children went on to attend and graduate from UMaine, including his son Kevin, who also earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2016. He now works as a project manager for the contractor PTAG, where he helps oversee solar power facility integration as a contractor for Central Maine Power. In addition, Kevin owns an interconnection and renewable energy consulting firm, Energized Grid Solutions.
Now a new generation of Conroys and extended family members has enrolled at UMaine, including Ryan Boles, a cousin of Melinda and Kevin, who is a sophomore in electrical engineering.
Discovering Melinda’s accolade inspired Ryan, and he says he hopes to achieve the same work ethic, motivation and positive attitude that she and other family members exhibit.
“We’re her number one fans and her biggest supporters,” Kevin says. “I hope we can add to the list of accolades and accomplishments in the workplace.”
Tour guide
Dean Dana Humphrey shares views of Ferland EEDC that opens next year
Editor’s note: College of Engineering dean Dana Humphrey has long been talking about the importance, need and value of the $78 million Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center. But since the virtual groundbreaking for the facility in April 2020, he has given hundreds of “tours,” both virtually and on-site, rain or shine, from the sidewalk nearest the construction. Ferland EEDC, which will welcome students in fall 2022, is one of his many favorite subjects, especially to prospective students and their parents. We asked him to give us an excerpt from one of those tours — a vivid walk-through in narrative that gets to the potential of this next chapter in UMaine engineering.
The $78 million Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center will transform engineering education at the University of Maine. When completed in August 2022, it will become the heart of engineering. The most important feature is the Student Project Design Suite, which is nearly half of the first floor. It will have 48 workbenches, each assigned to a group of students for a semester or a year. This is where they will build their hands-on projects.
Each bench features lockable storage for student teams and will be surrounded by fully equipped fabrication shops. There will be shops for biomedical engineering, electronics, 3D printing, vehicles, metal, wood and composites. Students will go out to the shops to fabricate components, and then return to their benches for assembly and debugging.
Alex Friess, associate professor of mechanical engineering, says this state-ofthe-art project suite will significantly increase our capability to provide experiential education across all engineering programs, and represents a vast improvement of the educational experience for not only our senior students, but throughout the curriculum.
All engineering students, from first-year to graduate students, who have completed basic safety training can use the Design Suite. This will be the best space of its kind in the Northeast.
Ferland EEDC will be a magnet for engineering students and faculty. There is a two-story commons with comfortable seating for work and collaboration. Given that food has universal attraction, UMaine Dining will have a location for drinks, snacks and grab-and-go sandwiches.
Two massive south-facing windows will bring the sun into the commons. A door leads from the commons to an outside plaza. Twelve student meeting rooms strategically placed throughout the building can be reserved online for group work and tutoring sessions.
There is informal seating along “Main Street” on the second and third floors. Engineering student clubs have a large meeting room on the second floor. This is a “corner office” with windows on two sides. A skylight the length of the building will stream natural light through all floors, making them warm and inviting.
Given all the features of the building, it is expected that every UMaine engineering student will be in the building at least once a day for classes, meetings, labs or a cup of coffee. The building is the new home of mechanical engineering, housing its department, faculty and grad student offices. Two second-floor teaching labs serve the needs of both mechanical engineering and mechanical engineering technology.
There is a rooftop lab where students can conduct real-life experiments with solar trackers and wind turbines. A first-floor tool room with metal lathes and milling machines is critical for hands-on learning for mechanical engineering technology students. This replaces the Machine Tool Lab that was razed to make way for Ferland EEDC.
Biomedical engineering is moving from Jenness Hall to the third floor of Ferland EEDC. Half of this floor is research labs with specialized facilities for tissue culture, optics, instrumentation, chemistry and biomechanics.
Assistant professor of biomedical engineering Karissa Tilbury says that she has “nerdy giddiness” when thinking about the capabilities that these labs will provide for faculty, graduate students and undergraduates. A state-of-the art biomedical engineering teaching lab has support labs for tissue culture, microscopy and instrumentation. Biomedical faculty and graduate students have offices on the third floor. Ferland EEDC respects our past and looks toward the future. It is connected to Boardman Hall by a bridge. Exterior signage from the Machine Tool Lab will be installed on a wall in the mechanical engineering technology tool room.
The outside of the building is faced with brick to make a connection to the surrounding facilities, but it has modern windows for a look to the future. The building is designed to allow mechanical and biomedical engineering to double in size so that we can increase the number of engineering graduates to help meet the needs of Maine and beyond. The building serves not just engineering, but the entire campus. There are five collaborative classrooms set up for active learning that will be used by classes from all majors.
The campus Welcome and STEM Outreach Center will be on the north end of the first floor. Campus tours for prospective students will start here. There will be offices for UMaine Admissions and for STEM outreach through 4-H and UMaine Cooperative Extension.
Making the Ferland EEDC a reality has been a team effort. The state of Maine provided $50 million in funding for the project. More than 500 donors contributed more than $25 million in private gifts.
Donors who contributed $1 million or more are: James and Eileen Ferland, Harold Alfond Foundation, Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation, Packaging Corporation of America, Abbagadassett Foundation, and Pratt & Whitney.
The creativity of the design team of WBRC Architects Engineers and Ellenzweig is evident throughout the building. They brought great ideas to the table and incorporated suggestions from faculty, staff and students, resulting in a building that will be a point of pride for all Black Bears.
Construction of the building is overseen by Consigli Construction. They are giving UMaine an outstanding project that is on time and on budget. UMaine Facilities Management also has been part of every step of making this project a reality.
A particular point of pride is that 78 UMaine graduates have been part of this building’s design and construction. This building is becoming a reality because of Black Bears working to serve the needs of future Black Bears and for the entire state of Maine.
Pendse named Distinguished Maine Professor
HEMANT PENDSE, an internationally recognized leader in forest bioproducts research, is the University of Maine 2021 Distinguished Maine Professor.
The annual Distinguished Maine Professor Award honors a UMaine professor who exemplifies the highest qualities of teaching, research and public service. It is sponsored by the University of Maine Alumni Association and its Classes of 1942 and 2002.
Since joining the university in 1979, the professor of chemical engineering and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering has spearheaded innovative research that has earned two patents, produced 82 publications, given more than 200 technical papers and garnered $17 million in external funding. He also has yielded new economic opportunities for Maine through his work on forest bioproducts.
Students know Pendse as an educator who challenges them to think critically, provides clear and concise lessons, is always willing to help, and dedicates himself to their success.
Pendse founded the Forest Bioproducts Research Institute in 2010, and serves as its director. FBRI aims to identify the logistic, scientific, economic and policy factors that would allow forest-based products to be made at a commercial scale and inspire the creation of a biorefinery in Maine.
Under his leadership, FBRI built the nation’s first pilotscale plant for manufacturing nanofibrillated cellulose, or nanocellulose. The institute earned $48 million for various projects, $17 million of which is attributable to Pendse’s efforts.
FBRI developed and secured patents for its breakthrough thermal deoxygenation process (TDO) for making biofuels for jets and marine engines, and for its process to create advanced materials like nanocellulose. Pendse was instrumental in scale up to continuous pilot operations that benefit researchers and private business alike.
Pendse’s research interests involve pulp and paper manufacturing, colloid systems, particulate and multiphase processes and sensor development. During his studies, he has developed forest biorefinery pilot-scale industrial process systems, an ultrasonic slurry characterization system, a laboratory instrument for particle surface charge characterization in concentrated colloids and an online particle size distribution sensor system for concentrated slurries. He also has developed multiple theories and methodologies to assist in particulate systems characterization and processing
His numerous awards include the 2009 College of Engineering Ashley Campbell Award, 2012 Genco Award from the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation, and the 2012 UMaine Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award.
Pendse’s record of public service includes advising the Municipal Review Committee, a group of 115 Maine cities and towns united to tackle solid municipal waste problems; and serving on the Economic Development Assessment Team, Maine Innovation Economy Advisory Board, the Governor’s Wood-to-Energy Taskforce and more.
He and FBRI also have collaborated on the Forest Opportunity Roadmap/Maine (FOR/Maine), a public-private partnership seeking new markets for wood products and bolstering technological innovation to support new commercial uses for wood. He has served on the Corporate Advisory Council for Nelson Industries, Stoughton, Wisconsin, and the Transport & Energy Processes Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in various capacities.
MEE Salutatorian
DREW BENNETT’S LinkedIn page says it all: “I am an Education Technical Services Engineer at PTC (and loving it!).”
Bennett, who is from Brewer, Maine, graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in robotics from the University of Maine in May 2021 and was the university’s Salutatorian. As an education technical services engineer at PTC in Boston, he works with teachers, students and STEM organizations to implement the company’s software technology.
At UMaine, Bennett received Mid-South Engineering scholarships and the Thomas P. Hosmer Scholarship. Throughout his time on campus, he served as an undergraduate research assistant in the Advanced Manufacturing Center. Last year, he also was a manufacturing intern with General Electric in Bangor and was an education application engineering intern with PTC.
On campus, Bennett was president of Black Bear Robotics and of the UMaine NASA Robotics Mining Challenge Team. He noted that it was the trip to the JFK Space Center in Florida as part of the NASA Robotics Mining Challenge Team that encouraged him “to dive deeper into the field of design engineering.”
In the community, Bennett mentors youth robotics teams.
The opportunities for student success at UMaine are “both unique and endless,” Bennett says. “There are so many different research opportunities, internships, and on-campus jobs that allow students to explore their passions and find success in the fields they care about.”
2021 Outstanding Graduating Students
Jordan Miner of East Baldwin, Maine was the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Engineering. She was a biomedical engineering major with minors in electrical engineering and bioinstrumentation. Miner was a Maine Top Scholar who received two fellowships from the Center for Undergraduate Research to study Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She was a student researcher collaborating in the laboratories of professors Karissa Tilbury and Clarissa Henry. Miner presented and published her research findings, and received best poster honors at the 2019 Northeast Symposium on Biomedical Optics. She also participated in three internships at IDEXX Laboratories and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. On campus, Miner was a peer tutor and a leader in the Biomedical Engineering Club. She was captain of the Fastpitch Club that won the 2019–20 New England East conference championship. Miner is pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at UMaine, focused on cancer research. Vilgot Larsson of Stockholm, Sweden was an Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Engineering. The civil engineering major had a concentration in environmental engineering. The scholar-athlete was a member of the men’s basketball team. He was a member of the Swedish National Team in the summers through 2019 and at UMaine was involved in community volunteering initiatives. Larsson plans to pursue a career in environmental engineering.
Khoa Kieu of Da Nang City, Vietnam was an Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Engineering. The chemical engineering major received multiple scholarships during his years at UMaine, including the Roger B. Hill Engineering Scholarship. He participated in a chemical engineering co-op at Verso Paper in Jay in 2019. On campus, he worked in Dining Services, and as a teaching assistant and peer tutor. He plans to pursue a career in chemical engineering as a process or production engineer.
New faculty
VIJAY DEVABHAKTUNI
Norman Stetson Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D., Carleton University Specialty: computers and data for decisions
VIKAS DHIMAN
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D., University of Michigan Specialty: mobile robotics, autonomous vehicles, computer vision, safe control
PETER HOWORTH
Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering Technology BEng(Hons), Brunel University Specialty: leveraging professional experience to support entrepreneurship and small business development
AMRIT VERMA
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology Specialty: offshore wind turbine technology
LUIS ZAMBRANOCRUZATTY
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D., Virginia Tech Specialty: geotechnical engineering, geomechanics, soil-water-structure interaction, sediment mobility
Inaugural professorships
Bill Davids has been appointed the inaugural Russell S. Bodwell Distinguished Professor, and Andy Goupee has been appointed the first Donald A. Grant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Davids, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, joined UMaine in 1998. He received a bachelor’s and a master’s of civil engineering from UMaine in 1989 and 1991, respectively, followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1998. He worked as a structural engineer for Sverdrup Corporation from 1991–94. Davids recently completed a nine-year term as chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The professorship was created by Russell S. Bodwell, UMaine civil engineer Class of ‘44, who went on to found the engineering firm Henderson and Bodwell.
Goupee is an associate professor of mechanical engineering. He received a bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UMaine in 2003, 2005 and 2010, respectively. He also worked as a research engineer for the Advanced Structures and Composites Center from 2010–14. Goupee joined the UMaine faculty in 2014. The professorship was created in honor of department chair emeritus Donald Grant, who taught at the University of Maine from 1956–2020. Goupee was one of Grant’s students.
Dagher receives first Academic Pioneer Award from American Composites Manufacturers Assn.
Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is the inaugural recipient of the 2021 Academic Pioneer Award from the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA). Dagher and the Advanced Structures and Composites Center team were honored in person at ACMA’s Membership Awards Ceremony and Reception on Oct. 18 in Dallas.
New in 2021, the Academic Pioneer Award recognizes individuals in academia with original, visionary and innovative ideas that have been scientifically investigated, tested and demonstrated to advance composites technology.
“I am humbled and honored to have been selected as the first recipient of the Academic Pioneer in Composites Award from the ACMA,” Dagher said. “This award belongs to the exceptionally talented team of faculty, staff and thousands of students who have worked at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center over the past 25 years. One of our core values at the center is teamwork, that none of us is as smart as all of us, and this award is for the ASCC team.”
The Academic Pioneer Award recognizes Dagher’s leadership in advancing next-generation composite materials that are lighter and more durable, with a smaller carbon footprint. Examples include the awardwinning composite arch bridge system known as Bridge in a Backpack, the commercialized composite bridge girder system known as GBeams, the Modular Ballistic Protection System that has been fielded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Mark V.1 U.S. Navy Seals all-composites vessel, and the patented VolturnUS floating wind turbine technology that has attracted over $150 million in private and public investment.
Internationally recognized traffic roundabout expert Per Erik Gårder, a University of Maine professor of civil and environmental engineering, has edited “Transportation Safety and Security,” one of seven volumes in the 2021 edition of the International Encyclopedia of Transportation published by Elsevier.
The encyclopedia, which includes more than 600 articles, incorporates diverse views on nine themes related to modern-day transportation: Transport Modes; Freight Transport and Logistics; Transport Safety and Security; Transport Economics; Traffic Management; Transport Modelling and Data Management; Transport Policy and Planning; Transport Psychology; and Sustainability and Health Issues in Transportation.
As the safety and security volume editor, Gårder commissioned more than 100 articles from diverse scholars to offer an interdisciplinary cross-section that incorporates the latest safety findings from the fields of engineering, operations research, human factors and sociology. International researchers representing varied social perspectives contributed to the encyclopedia to facilitate innovative problem-solving and to delineate global best practices in transportation safety.
Gårder also contributed three articles to the encyclopedia: “Planning for Safe and Secure Transport Infrastructure,” “Bridge Safety” and “Nominal Safety,” and drafted the introduction to the volume he edited.
The volume will be the go-to reference material for researchers and practitioners, and editing the safety and security volume of the encyclopedia reflects Gårder’s stature as a leading global scholar, says Shaleen Jain, chair of the UMaine Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
My UMaine engineering degree prepared me well to analyze problems and find solutions, which led me to an interesting and well-paid career. One in 10 of my engineering classmates was a woman, now it is one in four. We can still do more to encourage women to pursue engineering and computing as a way to take on challenges and innovate solutions in a wide range of industries to best meet the needs of our society.” Christine Born Johnson ’82
HELPING MAINE GROW A DIVERSE, EQUITABLE WORKFORCE
In 1989, the Margaret Chase Morrill ’43 Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund was established at the University of Maine Foundation in honor of Margaret Chase Morrill, UMaine’s first female civil engineering graduate.
Christine Born Johnson, Class of 1982, B.S. Civil Engineering, consistently contributed to this endowed fund since it was initiated by emeritus professor and provost John Alexander with an unrestricted gift from a grateful parent. Johnson retired from a successful career in the telecommunications industry, and serves as president of the Portland Club of UMaine Alumnae. Johnson also is an incorporator member of the University of Maine Foundation and a member of the Stillwater Society.
One of the goals of the UMS TRANSFORMS campaign is to double the number of degrees granted in engineering, computing and information science to provide the technical workforce and innovations that are critical to moving Maine’s economy forward. Scholarships to recruit and retain underrepresented groups such as women in engineering, computing and information science help Maine grow a more diverse and equitable workforce. Public and private investments in these disciplines across the University of Maine System will help to garner a $75 million match from the Harold Alfond Foundation.
For more information about giving to the UMS TRANSFORMS campaign, please contact Patricia Cummings, Diane Woodworth or Matt Mullen at the University of Maine Foundation, 800.982.8503 or
207.581.5100.
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CHE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Chemical engineering sophomore Ingrid Plant of Hampden, Maine is one of 131 UMaine Pulp and Paper Foundation scholarship recipients enrolled at the university this academic year.
